Canonsleigh Priory Gatehouse
CANONSLEIGH PRIORY GATEHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1106457
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Canonsleigh Priory Gatehouse
- Statutory Address:
- CANONSLEIGH PRIORY GATEHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1106457
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Canonsleigh Priory Gatehouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CANONSLEIGH PRIORY GATEHOUSE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CANONSLEIGH PRIORY GATEHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Burlescombe
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 06697 17380
Details
BURLESCOMBE ST 01 NE 5/2 Canonsleigh Priory Gatehouse 24.10.51 5.4.66 GV I
Former Priory Gatehouse. C15. Local stone rubble with mostly Beerstone ashlar detail but also some Hamstone and some red sandstone ashlar. Plan: large double gateway with chamber over. The original outside front faced west-south-west, say west. A newel stair turret projects from the left (north) end and the chamber probably had a right gable-end stack. Exterior: on the front both gateways are blocked. Nevertheless the right one shows as a flattened Tudor arch. Only the right half of the left arch shows. It was apparently smaller than the other even though the vaulted roofs of the carriageways are of equal height. The chamber above has a Hamstone square-headed 2-light window with moulded mullion, ogee heads and carved spandrels. A collapsed gap at the right end may have contained another window. Between this and the window is a large Hamstone image-niche with an ogee-head, and towards the right end an quatrefoil- shaped ventilator. Along the top at the left end is the remains of a moulded Beerstone cornice with the remains of an embattled parapet. The roof is missing but each end there are low pitch gables, the right one containing an C18 brick-lined oculus. The original cornice this end is better-preserved. The rear elevation (originally inside the Priory enclosure) contains a pair of similar large plain segmental-headed carriageway arches, the left (south) one partly blocked with C20 concrete blocks. Interior: the southern carriageway has an inner front arch of high quality craftsmanship; a Tudor arch with a broad moulded surround enriched with a regular series of carvings featuring fourleaf motifs, masks, birds etc. This carriageway appears to have been walled off in the late C16 - early C17 since the inserted floor is carried on moulded oak beams. The inside of the northern vault is plain. A red sandstone 2-centred arch leads off from the carriageway to the newel stair. The chamber is now open to the sky. There is a collapsed alcove in the southern end which might have been a fireplace and an alcove alongside it was probably a garderobe. This is an interesting relic of monasticism although its poor state of preservation creates concern over its future.
Listing NGR: ST0669917381
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95853
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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